Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Foster

Joseph Bazalgette created a sewer system which he originally sized for London's needs of the time - he then doubled it to anticipate the future beyond. These are the qualities that I admire.

Dick Anderson

We plan to recertify our bid. We don't anticipate any changes. And we believe we have a very good shot at winning. We are certainly optimistic about the outcome.

Dick Anderson

We plan to re-certify our bid. We don't anticipate any changes. And we believe we have a very good shot at winning.

Dan Jones

We definitely anticipate and want ice, but we don't want to cancel. We want to bring people out and demonstrate the best we can.

Barry Hyman

There is a substantial group of investors who believe the stock market will start to anticipate an (economic) recovery. The more rate cuts we get, the more likely the recovery is -- I'm looking at this as a 'buy the dip' opportunity.

Robert Frank

My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished.

Bobby Bayliss

We know them. We anticipate another close match, a competitive match, which it usually is in this series.

Chris Chambliss

You have no time to think about your footwork. You have to anticipate quickly. If you're late with the footwork, try to get it after the play is halfway over, it's too late.

Chris Bean

You don't anticipate winning like that. I think it's going to be tougher Friday, but I hope not.

Paul Haggis

The great majority of Scientologists I know are good people who are genuinely interested in improving conditions on this planet and helping others.

Simon Mainwaring

No one doubts the enormity of the social challenges we face around the world but one critical element of our response must be the generation of new thinking and ideas. Yet creating the conditions that make this possible is not simple.

Ed Orgeron

When a recruit comes in or commits, we lay out everything all the do's and don'ts and conditions of that (scholarship offer). We have to protect ourselves. Protect the program.

Kristen Meyer

We have made an effort to get the message out there. But we're not working in ideal conditions here.

Michelle Jensen

We did well on a day where the conditions were not very good.

Bill Owens

Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.

Orison Swett Marden

The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.

Debbie Ford

In the presence of your own loving attention, you create the inner conditions that are necessary to step into the next greatest evolution of yourself.

Shawne Merriman

We're a team with speed. No matter what the conditions are, we have to go out and get pressure, but it was a little tougher today than it is usually. The footing out there was horrible.

Alexa Von Tobel

The time to save for the future is now. Thanks to compounding interest, the earlier you start putting money away for the future, the more you will save.

Jamal Crawford

We have lost some games earlier (this season) and guys have taken it to heart and are really working on it.

Silvia Pepino

What we have seen over time is a gradual pickup in underlying growth momentum. The strength we were seeing earlier in the year in the export side has started to spill over to investment.

Frank Romero

We didn't play very well. We had been moving guys over and getting hits with runners in scoring position. We had a lot of opportunities. We have to be better with two strikes. We're not doing the things we did earlier in the year. We have some people hurt and we've played a lot of different people. We're out of sync. We have to find a way to play better.

Kent Nelson

We are having a typical fire season - it's just a few weeks earlier than normal.

Mark Vitner

We're likely to see large upward revision to earlier data, so it'll be harder for January to show a big gain.

Charlie Johnson

We actually probably should have moved him down a year earlier because when we played really good teams, people were killing us at left tackle.

Ilya Kovalchuk

Yeah, Dany scored four goals earlier for Ottawa, ... so I wanted to do the same thing.

Krishna Sitaula

We were successful in foiling the king's plans to hold municipal elections earlier this month. Now our focus will be to come up with plans to force the king to give up power he grabbed.

Nate Hurst

Wal-Mart is, in fact, taking people off America's uninsured list. We estimate that we've taken 160,000 people off the ranks of the uninsured.

Lord Falconer

We made estimates of what gains we could make. We made some gains but we did not make the gains that we had hoped to make.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man is, the grander he is, the more he thinks of mother, wife and daughter.

Euben Paracuelles

We are maintaining our full-year 2005 GDP estimate at 4.8 percent, which implies an improvement in the fourth quarter to 5.1 percent.

Mike Rann

World Health Organisation estimates suggest we prepare for a situation where one quarter of our population is infected,

Rob Binns

World Airways will operate five international round trips a week under the contract, which has an estimated value of $11 million.

Les Wright

In the near future we estimate that we will have 2 to 3 million fewer page views per day. But the farther you go out, the greater the likelihood we will recapture that and then some.

Danny Yatom

The estimate is that within around 15 months, about a year and a half, we'll be able to say if we reached a breakthrough or not. I hope we'll reach a breakthrough.

John Challenger

A growing number of unemployed Americans waste time browsing the estimated 4,000 to 5,000 online job sites, blanketing them with resumes, and then waiting for callbacks. It is a formula for long-drawn-out joblessness.

Paul Kantner

I wouldn't have expected an audience of ours to burn down our equipment.

Brian Harper

We probably did 25 percent of the sales we were expected to do.

Cao Yu

For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.

Nikki Blonsky

Michael Clarke Duncan and I met at a music festival that was honoring films, and we happened to be seated next to each other at the dinner, and we just hit it off and kept in touch ever since. He was just the gentle giant in real life like you would have expected him to be.

Mark Anderson

We are concerned. There is a going rate for fruit-picking which is about $30 a bin. They are expected to do five bins a day.

Lee Watkins

When they evacuated, what most people took out was what they could put in a car. ... I don't think any of them expected total devastation.

Alison Moyet

My strength as a singer is my versatility. I find it really frustrating when I'm only expected to show off. The music industry is awash with female acrobats. What happens to the song, and treating it for its sake and not as an ego example?

Anne F. Beiler

When my husband Jonas and I started Auntie Anne's in 1988, we never expected or anticipated building an international pretzel franchise. It was the farthest thing from our minds.

David Alan Grier

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.

David Suzuki

There are more humans than all of the rabbits on earth. There are more of us than all the wildebeests, than all the rats, than all the mice. We are the most numerous mammal on the planet. But because we're not like rabbits or rats or mice, we have technology, we have a consumptive appetite, we have a global economy.

Steven Levitt

If you really accept that global warming puts the world at risk, then you think you would be open to any solution that could undo it.

Monica Crowley

Occupy Wall Street didn't just spring from the earth organically, out of thin air. This was all part of the global socialist movement.

Lee Myung-bak

With the lessons taken from the financial crisis in 1997, the Republic of Korea has been able to surmount the global economic crisis rather successfully.

Fareed Zakaria

The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.

Eugene Christiansen

There is immense global consolidation in this industry. Everyone is a target. No one is safe. That might be in their minds.

Tom Schoewe

Wal-Mart has only 3 percent of global market share. So there's still tremendous opportunity for expansion,

Lee H. Hamilton

We have thought about what to do, a global strategy, and how to do it: A different way of organizing our government.

David Ball

Today's students are more global in their perspective, taking Spanish and even Mandarin Chinese, as part of attaining a well-rounded education. That's a wise move considering the likelihood they will supervise, or be supervised by, someone whose first language isn't English.

Alan Cohen

There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

Alan Cohen

Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go.

Alan Cohen

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.

Charlie Dent

There is no clear sign that the economy is turning the corner in a meaningful way.

Alan Ball

I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

Al Oerter

Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.

Al Seckel

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.

Dave Barry

I always assumed that at some point I would have to quit making jokes, get a real job and do something meaningful and productive that would actually benefit society. Fortunately this never happened.

David Suchet

I can't try to convert anybody. It's not in me to do that. But my faith has given me such an appreciation of people and meaningful relationships, and a world view which I didn't have before. And although I will fail every day, it gives me something to aspire to.

Walter Alston

I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

Constance Wu

I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Eric Fellner

You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.

Paul Weller

I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I don't necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing for the next 10, 20 years... I could see how easy it is to get into that rut, the whole touring mindset.

Suranand Vejjajiva

We probably have to take it into consideration for our next step.

Chris Houston

We practically have a whole new team, so this is a rebuilding year. We plan to have some success here next year and the year after that, definitely.

Bob Newhart

I can't do a one-camera show. I don't know how to do that kind of show where you count in your head and then you do the next line.

Jim Christian

We had an unbelievable run in 2002, and that team will always be special in Kent State history. But this team will be in the very next paragraph.

Nicolas Roeg

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Carlos Ghosn

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

Noah Hawley

I remain a huge 'Game of Thrones' fan.

Vidya Balan

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

Ian Shepherdson

The only soft spots in the survey remain inventories and employment, but they will recover.

Jimmy Johnson

Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.

Ray Giacoletti

We haven't done anything. We need to remain hungry.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value.

Mike Lynch

Our visibility is improving, but at the same time still remains low,

Jim Sweeney

We didn't do anything spectacular on offense. But Tony Porto bailed us out several times.

Patrice Leconte

I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.

Hanoi Hannah

And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.

Ruth Winstrom

We're going to be there for several days.

Gene Robinson

We have been very successful in several of these searches.

Alex Knott

Those are several times more than the average. It shows you that this is going to be a very costly election.

Nikki Cox

I'm a McDonald's girl - several times a week. Usually the two-cheeseburger combo meal.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Marcia Powers

If you would have told us several years ago that we would be doing all these hikes, we would have said you were crazy.